Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

They do. They are heavier then they look as well.

 

@MJ1657 Do you have a picture of what this load looks like all assembled?

 

@truckdad I do not but I'll get one when I'm on a site one of these days. What I have on is what goes under a grain bin horizontally to drag the grain out to the leg. The leg is the vertical part.

 

@truckdad Imagine a really big metal octopus!!

Actually @MJ1657 I'ld appreciate a picture of a newer setup, The closest one to me got cut up for scrap, might be pushing ten yrs ago now.

I do not remember the exact number of farms that were in operation in my town when I was a kid, but a lot. As of three months ago the last dairy left sold it's last cow... And the son's of that farm went to high school with me. The decision to sell the cows was not because they wanted out... Their father told me the last milk check was for the same $/hundred weight as he got when his boys and I was kids!

 

Sounds like the dairy business is going south up there too. My moms side of the family were all Dutch dairymen in the Chino, CA area, then they all scattered to central CA. valley, some went to texas & NM. The ones that havnt gone broke or sold their herds already sound like it wont be much longer til its over. Whats goin on?

 

Milk price sucks.

 

That is true.

Production is up from what it was back then but not enough to compensate for the higher input costs.

I'll get some pictures. I normally do not get to farms its usually big elevators.

I need to stop at an elevator I hauled equipment into a couple years ago in WI. The leg is powered by two 150 hp motors. That's big.

 

I've never seen one up close-do they split the grain to the different updraft pieces and use an Archimedes screw to bring the product up to? Or chain driven belt?

 

It's basically a vertical conveyer with buckets attached, as it goes around the bottom and upward it scoops the grain. Then it carries it up and dumps it into the distribution head at the top, then the empty buckets go down the back side.

 

Good explanation @johndeere4020

It's kind of funny how its done the same now as it was many years ago. Just much bigger.